Growing Up Divided

Growing up in twentieth century USA, without a recent immigrant history, nor a Native American indigenous heritage, just another in-between victim of Straight WesternWhite Male privilege, I recall a smirky fuss about Eastern mind/body connection, pseudo-science, nondual nonviolent inscrutable paradoxical unrealistic philosophy, meditation as if medication. It did not occur to me, in my enthusiastically extractive and exhausting youth, that in the East, Buddhist and Taoist teachers might have indulged in a smirky fuss About Western mind v body disconnection, secular science severed from sacred arts, dualistic divine spirit v corrupt nature theology, just war theories rooted in retributive justice theory instead of restorative peace experience; body medication without mind meditation. In my more enthusiastically inclusive and creative-tensioned age, it occurs to bicameral mindbody me, that Eastern ecosystemic connection is also Western ego-recentering compassion, experienced by Left-dominant hemispheres as felt by Right-prominent mind/body biospheres, Searching for why binomial structures religiously emerge from organic co-relational nomials, dynamic spirit/natured variables, inside/outside co-determinate sociables, analogy, theological ecology. Polynomials, western polypathic autonomous variables and eastern polyphonic relationships, Earth double-binding polyvagal dancing bodies wrapped around, and developing through, revolving polymorphic minds equally not not polynomially independent, free, liberated, communal saints and divided sinners.